Thanksgiving!

I am thankful for my family the most. I love them so much and I know they will always be there to support me in whatever I do. We always have so much fun together at family parties or even around the dinner table and that to me is irreplaceable.

I am thankful for my friends. My friends and I always have so much fun when we are together. Especially my friend Gina Morelli. She helps me become a better person and I look up to her as a dancer because I aspire to be like her. I just love being with my friends all the time. They will help me with all my stupid problems and not judge me on that.I am thankful that I have them.

I am beyond thankful for dance. Dance is something that has always been apart of my life. My studio is just a place where I can escape to and just be myself. I love dancing because I can dance out my emotions instead of taking it out on the people that care about me and then making them mad.

I am thankful for music. I just love music, it something that shows diversity in a person and I think that is really cool. I am thankful for music because I like to dance and with out the music there is no dance. Music is just fun where I am can sit in my room and zone out and take a break from the real world.

I am thankful for my dance teacher Miss Katy. Miss Katy has helped me out in so many ways possible. I love that I have a person where I can go to that will really understand me and help me in what I am going through. This past year she has turned me into a dancer that not only dances with strength but with emotion. I look up to her as a person and I aspire to be like her when I am older.

I am thankful for food. I love food alot its taste very good because my dad makes amazing food. With out my dad cooking food we would be eating trash probably. I am thankful that I have my dad to make amazing food that keeps me healthy and fit.

I am thankful for the Internet. The Internet has many cool features on it that makes it easier for my friends and I to communicate. I am thankful for Facebook too. Facebook can be fun and it's a really cool site where I can post pictures up and of my friends and I. My long distance family and friends like to look at them and see how I have grown.

I am thankful for the Julliard School of Performing Arts. I have wanted to go there for so long. I am thankful for it because I can get a normal education and then an education on dance. Julliard is a dream that I want to come true so bad becuase, I want to be a performer and that college will give the opportunity to do just that.

I am thankful for clothes. I think clothes is an important part of your physical apperance. Clothes can tell who I am and what my personality. Clothes are also fun to put together and make really cool or funny outfits that can express how I am feeling that day.

I am thankful for my Grandpa. I love my grandpa so much and even though he will make his way up to heaven soon I know I have learned so much from him. He has taught me more about my religion and told me how to live out the Catholic faith and always look to God no matter what happens. He got me intersested in the topic of history becuase he was in the Korean war and I love learning about his experience. When he does pass away I know I will have all these good times and amazing memories I have shared with him that will never go away.

Cultural Paragraphs

American culture is very unique and very different. Looking into the American culture it doesn’t have one specific culture it has many. American culture has Folk life it depends on the traditional songs we sing and the dance we do. When American kids were littler they would hear Fairy Tales from their mom or dads before they went to bed. Some examples would be Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, James and the Giant Peach, Beauty and the Beast and may more. At camp fires people would tell ghost stories from the afterlife, some would be about the past and during the time of the wars, some about, stories that their grandparents or parents passed down to them. Our holidays in the American culture can be very different from other cultures. One holiday we celebrate is Martin Luther King Day January 15. Most schools have this day off to remember him in a way that other cultures do not. Another day is, Ground Hog day it is celebrated on Saturday January 13, 210 this year. Ground Hog day is the day when a ground hog is taken out of the hole and looks to see if it sees it shadow, if it does see his shadow we have six more weeks of winter. If it does not see its shadow we don’t have six more weeks of winter. A religious holiday that most people celebrate is Easter. Easter is one of the Christian holidays remembering the day Jesus resurrection form the dead. Some things that people will do on Easter are, find Easter eggs, have a family dinner and go to church with family and friends.

My Culture is very different from other people. In my family, we celebrate religious holidays. For example, we celebrate Easter, Lent, Advent, Christmas and many more. One holiday that we celebrate is a Mexican holiday, Cinco de Mayo. We have all our long distance family and friends and local friends and family. On this day my dad makes homemade salsa, which is fantastic, very spicy though. My grandma would make some very delicious Mexican desert, and then my grandpa would go to Mexican town and buy some tortillas and with them, make enchiladas, very yummy. However, since my grandpa got very ill with cancer so he no longer able to make them so he passed his recipe down to me. For my everyday life, we go to Church every Sunday and make it our family day where no friends are allowed to come over, only family. Even though we are Mexican we do not speak Spanish thought our house, we speak English. My culture can be very different from others; I love my culture because I learn something new about myself every day.